The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-02
FROLICS IN FRANCE.
1 8NlN4ao # GOozNa.
From Grave to Gay, From
Lively to Severe.
PARIS MUST BEND 70 VIENNA.
Recruiting the Ranks OF the Spectacu-
lar Beauties for the Holiday
Iows-.fOh, Hush, Mother"


PARIS. December 16. = Alas! alas
Paris, the famous, the only Paris, is in
danger. Again it is the hated Germans
who threaten. They do not cross the
Rhine and pillage the frontier with a
vast army; they do not come to bonn
bard; they content themselves with
STAYING at and inficting blows at long
reach. For unnumbered years, the
world has looked to Paris for what it
should wear, and has bowed with due
reverence to the dictum of Partisan
modistes. And the city, grown naughty
and careless by reason of such long
continued subserYieHce, sees not the
insidious attacks of that upstart of Cen
trail Europe, Vienna. AT this very mo-
ment Vienna is setting on foot reform
that will revolutionize the winter toilets
and upset all plans, for the shopping
already done will have to be done over.
The reform is directed at the extraor-
binary appendage that the women in
sist upon carrying on their BACKS. In
spite of reiterated warnings, they have
not chosen to diminish the size OF this
monstrosity called once a hustle, now
the tournure, and tomorrow, perhaps.
with great propriety, basket phaeton.
On the contrary, following Women'S we'll
recognized peculiarities, the more they
have been besought to abandon that
eyesore, so unworthy of their charms,
the more they have increased its dimen-
sions. But in Vienna, ali the husbands
conspired for the destruction OF the
hustle. They said to themselves that If
Paris had not the spirit to assert itself,
it must be taught better. From words
to action was but step; in few days
the bust.e will be beaten i'll Vienna The
husbands will have consigned it to
eternal ridicule. They have dressed up
their dogs, big and little, terriers, bull
pups, King Charles spaniels, male and
female, with little hustle that the IN
fortunate beasts wear with a despair
that is irresistibly laughable. The
movement can not be but victorious,
and Paris, to save itself, must fall in
line and effect the reform here, hoping
by energetic action to assume the credit
for the change, and expect that other
nations will fail to see that the cue was
given in the Austrian town.
CITY FARMING.
Paris is a community of farmers.
The people love flowers, adore fruits
and float in Elysian ecstasy at the sight
of potatoes. 1t is not enough to buy
fruits and vegetables at the market;
they must be cultivated, raised on
native soil. 1t may readily be sup
posed that farming proceeds under
proceed it does, and the products of
AGRICULTURAL toll are yearly exhibited in
a big show at the Pavilion de la Vile.
Such a show has just been held, and
the exhibition consists solely of
vegetable products that grew within
| the CITY limits. The people who do the
farming are artists. They are actuated
! by the Partisan passion for everything
| that is agreeable to the eye, to the sense
| of smell, and to the taste. In the broad
meadow or in the little patch Of earth
! no bigger than handkerchief, rescued
| from the omnipresent payer, it is their
| aim to improve nature-and they sue
coed. Their exhibition is astonishing.
One hundred and fifty varieties of
potatoes were displayed There
were hundred varieties of
roses, including some new ones.
BeauYallet, the tragedian, raised good
focks of sheep and geese IN quiet
house, the pasture being upon the
second floor counting from the roof.
know an actor, member of the Va
rieties company, who raises apricots
on the fifth floor of a house in d'Uzes
Street. Every morning he is supplied
with fertilizer by a gardener who
brings it from Auyergnat TO the metro
politan customers. The comedian has
planted about his apricots a regular
garden, where grow lettuce, carrots,
peas. potatoes and the like, and, II
remember Alright, he has a little vine
yard upon his balcony every autumn.
N. Philippe LOckroy, father OF our
present minister of commerce, was one
of the predecessors Of the actor. On
| the fifth floor, also, he has garden.
and, what is better, it has secured
| prizes, medals and diplomas at all the
horticultural shows.
Speaking of actors reminds me that
| this is the season of spectacular pro-
auctions at the minor theatres, himsy
shows that depend for success upon the
marching and attitudlnizing OF great
numbers.of poorly disciplined and i'm
perfectly clad young women. have
been curious to know how the NINA
ture armies of glittering amazons we're
recruited, for the spectacular season IS
brief, and, once finished, the armies
disappear from the boards as snow
melts under the sun of spring time.
The manager of a little theatre, the
Tropical Fancies," said, in answer to
my queries: - - r,E
There are two ways. may adVer-
tise in a newspaper that We need
pretty women to play in such a spec
tacle, such a theatre, or l send to
correspondent, telling him i need
twenty women day after to morrow; be
sends me hundred have received a
consignment To-day. Come and look
at them"
As we entered the theatre We heard
subdued murmur of pattering feet,
chattering tongues and laughter, but
when the manager appeared there
came a sudden silence. On the stage
vas a troop of young women of all
! kinds, from the grisette, with her hair